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ATRIAS Bipedal Robot Can Take a Beating and Keep Walking

Posted by timothy on from the whaddya-tell-a-robot-with-two-black-eyes? dept.

Zothecula writes The great tradition of designing robots inspired by the many beautiful forms of locomotion seen in the animal kingdom likely predates robotics itself, arguably stretching all the way back to Michelangelo's time. Standing on the shoulders of such giants is ATRIAS, a series of human-sized bipedal robots that remind us of other two-legged creatures like the ostrich or emu. It must be a great tension-reliever in the robotics lab to have a robot you can literally kick without knocking it off balance.

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  1. Re:youtube movies by binarylarry · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yep they do that also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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  2. Re:These are land-based drones by RightwingNutjob · · Score: 3, Informative

    So what? Almost all tech that moves you on the way to a star-trekky society free of poverty and want has its roots in war and savegery. Airplane technology really only spread its wings during the two world wars. The first electronic computer was used to compute ballistics tables. The first programmable electromechanical computer was used to crack Nazi encryption. So the robot that gets developed today to kill enemy soldiers will be used tomorrow for a half dozen peaceful applications I can't even imagine right now. True savages wouldn't bother with the last part.